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Deepa Iyer @deepaiyer.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Thanks @linasrivastava.bsky.social for including my reflection on political hope from the standpoint of everyday activists on the threshold of what comes next. Read all the authors in the link below!

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Deepa Iyer @deepaiyer.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

[NEW) Minneapolis is showing us how it's done. Over the past few weeks, I've received questions about how to adapt the Social Change Map for emerging efforts. I put together a short planner that can support folks in: facilitating meetings identifying roles evaluating growth bit.ly/49VL2nK

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Deepa Iyer @deepaiyer.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

My toughest audience taught me about what matters in the midst of harsh news headlines and hopelessness. Read my latest Substack here: open.substack.com/pub/deepaiye...

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What My Toughest Audience Taught Me (and an Invitation for 2026)

About a year ago, I nervously stood in front of an audience that I had never spoken to before...

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Julia S @juliacsmith.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

If you know someone who is feeling 1) unmoored because they don't know how to be most helpful to their community in this moment and/or 2) overloaded because they say yes to wayyyy too many asks ...great news, this workshop is for them!

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amy horst @amyhorst.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Oooh this sounds goooood

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Deepa Iyer @deepaiyer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Join me on 12/12 for a public online workshop focused on deepening our social change commitments for 2026. Register at www.socialchangemap.com.

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Janis @janishazel77.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Great work, @deepaiyer.bsky.social! Important to highlight there is active resistance to white Christian nationalism.

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Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons @guthriegf.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

“As authoritarian movements seek legitimacy by invoking a ‘Christian America,’ a growing number of faith leaders and faith-rooted institutions are pushing back more loudly and visibly.” @deepaiyer.bsky.social @npquarterly.bsky.social nonprofitquarterly.org/voices-from-...

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Voices from the Frontlines of Christian Organizing - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

Authoritarian movements seek legitimacy by invoking a “Christian America,” but a growing number of faith leaders and faith-rooted institutions are pushing back.

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Deepa Iyer @deepaiyer.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Amazing!! Thank you for sharing!

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 01/08/2025

new @teenvogue.com: Florida officials claimed they wouldn't hold minors in mosquito- and sewage-ridden Alligator Alcatraz, but a bombshell report in July found a 15-year-old was detained there in July. young people in Florida are afraid. said one, "If it happens once, it’s going to happen again.”

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A Teen Was Detained at Alligator Alcatraz. Could They Be the First of Many?

It comes after weeks of uncertainty around how minors would fit into Florida's immigration crackdown.

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Deepa Iyer @deepaiyer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

DC feels both like the epicenter of a democracy in collapse —and the place where community care is being reimagined. Sharing my latest essay on finding home in the DC area during this time: open.substack.com/pub/deepaiye...

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At the epicenter of collapse and community

Signs of grief, belonging and care in the DC area

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mantrastratgrp.bsky.social @mantrastratgrp.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

An essential read by writer and advocate @deepaiyer.bsky.social, who highlights that social change requires an intersection of gifts, skills, and roles. Read here: deepaiyer.substack.com/p/all-of-us #SocialJustice #Strategy #Change

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

🗓️ Thursday, July 10: join Common Future and a panel of leaders, including our BMP colleague @deepaiyer.bsky.social, for a discussion on how nonprofits might effectively assess and manage risk in a continually shifting environment. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/risky-busi...

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Risky Business Part 2—Managing Organizational Risk in an Evolving Landscape

Exploring questions about what it looks like to operate and effectively assess and manage risk in a continually shifting environment.

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The 2025–2026 UU Common Read is Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection by @deepaiyer.bsky.social‬. Visit uua.org/read to learn more about how and you and your community can participate. Available wherever books are sold!

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Our BMP colleague @deepaiyer.bsky.social shared some ideas with Seattle Times columnist Naomi Ishisaka on the many ways people can get more involved beyond and after rallies and protests (1/2)

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Deepa Iyer @deepaiyer.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

For more- here’s an essay on how all of us can flank disrupters by playing different roles. open.substack.com/pub/deepaiye...

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All of Us

Disrupters spark the moment, but it takes an entire ecosystem to sustain a movement.

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Deepa Iyer @deepaiyer.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

DMV! Please join me at the National Building Museum on 5/24 for a Community Day featuring We Are The Builders storytime AND activities supported by community members! All ages welcome.

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Deepa Iyer @deepaiyer.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Mothering is intensely personal + political. In a society that rhetorically places mothers in a pedestal, we consistently show them that they are not valued.

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Deepa Iyer @deepaiyer.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I have been using the metaphor of a fracture to describe the time we are in right now. Just as a bone breaks, the fractures in our body politic are revealing cracks, fissures and fault lines. Pls read/share my post + engage with reflection prompts here: deepaiyer.substack.com/p/fractured-na…

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Deepa Iyer @deepaiyer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

A resource for and about movements as the first 100 days come to a close from @buildingmovement.bsky.social. See below!

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Maura Philippone (she/her), M.A., CCC-SLP @mauraeileen13.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

On this day of action in the U.S., I'd like to amplify @deepaiyer.bsky.social 's fabulous Social Change Ecosystem Map. No matter which role(s) you identify with, we can work together to drive social change! buildingmovement.org/our-work/mov...

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Social Change Ecosystem Map - Building Movement

In our lives and as part of organizations, workplaces, and movements, many of us play different roles in pursuit of equity, shared liberation, inclusion, and justice. And yet, we often […]

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Deepa Iyer @deepaiyer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Thank you for highlighting “We Are The Builders!” for young kids to learn about social change, @zinnedproject.bsky.social. All the books on the list are amazing. 👇🏾

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Deepa Iyer @deepaiyer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

“I’m fearful that even the most low-level political speech ... can turn into this dystopian nightmare where somebody is calling you a terrorist sympathizer." -Ranjani Srinivasan, a Columbia University student whose student visa was revoked. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/n...

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How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her

Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

NEW: The Office for Civil Rights’ locations in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco are being shuttered, ProPublica has learned. "What you've got left is a shell that can't function." This is the latest from me and @jodiscohen.bsky.social

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Massive Layoffs at the Department of Education Erode Its Civil Rights Division

Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve discrimination complaints.

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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Today we invoke the true Queen Esther and stand up to the forces who would use Jewish safety as a pretext to shut down legal, peaceful student protests, to detain an expecting father a and green card holder, to suppress the movement for Palestinian liberation, and to destroy higher education.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 11/03/2025

Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife. Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped. We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil—a green card holder whose wife is eight months pregnant—is a blatant assault on the First Amendment and a sign of advancing authoritarianism under Trump. He must be released now.

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Thanks, Foundation Source for featuring BMP’s @deepaiyer.bsky.social on the Be Giving podcast! This episode discusses the components of the Social Change Ecosystem Map—its core values, key roles, and how they connect. 🔗 Listen here: bit.ly/41pQWcs

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Social Change Ecosystem: Looking at Giving through a Multidimensional Lens

Episode 3, Season 2 - we are joined by Deepa Iyer, who discusses the components of the social change ecosystem map – core sacred values, showing up in the ten roles of the ecosystem, and understanding...

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Deepa Iyer @deepaiyer.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Check out our most recent resources for #nonprofits on the frontlines of issues such as DEI, LGBTQ rights, Palestinian liberation, immigration: an FAQ, a summary of federal exec actions, and a survey to understand impact. 👇🏾

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

In the midst of relentless anti-immigrant attacks that rely upon similar narratives and policies - over 100 organizations joined Tsuru for Solidarity and BMP to send a powerful message that centers community care and solidarity: bit.ly/dor-solidarity-statement

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Solidarity Statement - Day of Remembrance — Solidarity Is

On the 83rd anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which led to the forced removal and incarceration of more than 125,000 Japanese Americans during World War II by the United States government, Tsuru fo...

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